Installing Fedora Core 4 on a Apple Powerbook G4 1.6GHz

[Jonathan Hartje]

All,
    I'm trying to install FC4 on a new Apple Powerbook G4, 1.67 Ghz 
laptop. After anaconda tries to launch X11, the screen goes blank and 
seems to hand. Does anyone know how/if there is a text install kernel or 
something similar to work around the issue?

Thanks in advance,
Jonathan

[Kevin Kempter]

On Wednesday 22 June 2005 13:32, Jonathan Hartje wrote:
>  All,
>      I'm trying to install FC4 on a new Apple Powerbook G4, 1.67 Ghz
>  laptop. After anaconda tries to launch X11, the screen goes blank and
>  seems to hand. Does anyone know how/if there is a text install kernel or
>  something similar to work around the issue?
>
>  Thanks in advance,
>  Jonathan 

Have you tried entering "linux text"  at the boot prompt?

boot: linux text

[Bryan Elliott]

Jonathan Hartje wrote:

>  All,
>     I'm trying to install FC4 on a new Apple Powerbook G4, 1.67 Ghz 
>  laptop. After anaconda tries to launch X11, the screen goes blank and 
>  seems to hand. Does anyone know how/if there is a text install kernel 
>  or something similar to work around the issue?
>
>  Thanks in advance,
>  Jonathan
>  
I have the same problem but use linux 3 to boot to text mode. I was 
wondering if you got this fixed?

[Ben Steeves]

On 7/1/05, Bryan Elliott <redhat(a)zoinkz.com&gt; wrote:
>  Jonathan Hartje wrote:
>  
>  > All,
>  >    I'm trying to install FC4 on a new Apple Powerbook G4, 1.67 Ghz
>  > laptop. After anaconda tries to launch X11, the screen goes blank and
>  > seems to hand. Does anyone know how/if there is a text install kernel
>  > or something similar to work around the issue?
>
>  I have the same problem but use linux 3 to boot to text mode. I was
>  wondering if you got this fixed? 
I've never managed to get X working on my 1.67GHz G4.  I know at least
one person got it working on a 1.5GHz, but that uses a different
graphics adapter.

OTOH, Ubuntu 5.04 works fine.  I haven't had the time yet to figure
out why one works and the other doesn't.

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[Bryan Elliott]

Ben Steeves wrote:

> On 7/1/05, Bryan Elliott <redhat(a)zoinkz.com&gt; wrote:
>   
>
> >Jonathan Hartje wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> >>All,
> >>   I'm trying to install FC4 on a new Apple Powerbook G4, 1.67 Ghz
> >>laptop. After anaconda tries to launch X11, the screen goes blank and
> >>seems to hand. Does anyone know how/if there is a text install kernel
> >>or something similar to work around the issue?
> >>      
> >>
> >I have the same problem but use linux 3 to boot to text mode. I was
> >wondering if you got this fixed?
> >    
> >
>
> I've never managed to get X working on my 1.67GHz G4.  I know at least
> one person got it working on a 1.5GHz, but that uses a different
> graphics adapter.
>
> OTOH, Ubuntu 5.04 works fine.  I haven't had the time yet to figure
> out why one works and the other doesn't.
>
>   
>  
Thanks for the reply I will give Ubuntu a try.